Spray ragwort protocol

We’ve a neighbour who’s rotten with it..useless …does yearly or bi yearly topping and baling kill it…spray no good here what with grazing, and the worry of them eating it..

What time of year did you spray?

The problem with it is that it builds up over time. The body can't get rid of the toxins. And if they build up enough of it they will eventually die from it. They will eat it after it has been cut but not while it is growing. If you are pulling it, you should wear gloves as you can absorb those same toxins yourself. Not as much as eating it but I'd say it wouldn't do you any good anyways. Often pulled it here with no gloves of course, but that was before I knew that you should wear gloves!

Would have been this time of the year adjust before they flowered. Stronger than recommended I know but doesn’t seem to have affected the kill.

A hateful job but strangely satisfying too as you can see your progress going along.

Gave 4 or 5 evenings over the past week pulling them, just myself and the boss man in the field, not a word spoken between us tipping along..it's probably only in years to come you'd appreciate it!!

True that, when you say that have memories of meself and the owl buck in the bog back in the day.

Daughter ambled past me on her horse while I was at it, she didnt offer to help even though I made the dig "dont worry, i'm just getting this acre ready so it doesnt kill your horse grazing".

Maybe she will learn in time, just in after another blast of it, had around 5 acres fairly bad with it, nearly there now another hour would do alot on it!!!

Had a cow with that feckin Brown snout/photo sensitisation thing here today, she must have eaten some of that St. John’s Wort. Do the sprays that kill Ragworth kill it also?

I can assure you that’s not ragwort..